17 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1st September 2025

  • Closing date

    23 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    3 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary from £14,739 to £16093 (20 hours per week term time plus 10 days)

Finance And Admin Officer job summary

You'll join a dynamic support team where your strong communication skills will be key to building positive relationships with both students and staff, ultimately enriching the overall educational experience. We're looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to adapt to diverse situations.

While previous school experience is a plus, it's not essential. We provide comprehensive training, making this a fantastic opportunity to kickstart or further develop your career in education and gain valuable experience. The working hours of this role are flexible, and can be part time, term time only, or a combination of these. We are open to hearing from candidates as to what they are interested in working.

What skills / experience are required

Familiarity with finance in an education setting is a bonus. You'll need to be proficient with accounting and finance software. We're looking for a self-motivated finance coordinator who is highly organized, meticulous, and committed to high-quality work.

What we can offer / about our school

You'll become a vital part of our dynamic and highly successful team. This role offers the exciting chance to directly influence and enrich our students' school experience. Plus, we're committed to flexibility: the exact hours and working pattern can be tailored to suit your needs as the successful candidate.

Access to a range of benefits, including an employee assistance programme, enrollment in the local government pension scheme, Free annual flu vaccines and ample on-site parking.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Lee Smith, School Business Manager, about the role, prior to application, then please email lsmith@cuttesloweprimary.org or telephone 01865 649618.

The River Learning Trust and Cutteslowe Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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About Cutteslowe Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
319 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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